Question follow-through · 40341
Employers' Contributions: Construction and Housing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the (a) housebuilding and (b) construction industry of her proposed changes to the level of employer National Insurance contributions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the (a) housebuilding and (b) construction industry of her proposed changes to the level of employer National Insurance contributions.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer; the economic impacts of the policy; and the impacts on indi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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